This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 Excerpt: ...being in priest's orders, there was no clergyman to administer the sacrament, on that day; the churchwardens therefore requested me, when in London, to send down a clergyman from thence. Tim time was short, I could find none disengaged, and had no alternative but to procure one, if possible, through the channel of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 Excerpt: ...being in priest's orders, there was no clergyman to administer the sacrament, on that day; the churchwardens therefore requested me, when in London, to send down a clergyman from thence. Tim time was short, I could find none disengaged, and had no alternative but to procure one, if possible, through the channel of the newspapers; an unpleasant circumstance, hut more eligible than to suffer so large a parish as Ware, not to have the sacrament administered on Christmasday: the advertisement ran thus. 'Wanted a clergyman in priest's orders, to officiate at a market town, twenty miles from London, on Christmas-day, and the sunday preceding it; for which a handsome gratuity will be given.' As my attendance at Ware, on the above days could be dispensed with, I had engaged myself to officiate at Hertford; and so little did the advertisement answer the desired end, that only one person applied, and he, a layman; but a respectable man, a hosier, in Fleetstreet. He represented to me that a clergyman of good character, had requested him to inquire where the place was, but was unwilling to tell me his name. This mysteriousness made me more desirous of knowing it; but he assured me that he was not at liberty to mention the gentleman's name, 'till it was certain that he should go; but gave me his own name and address, and said if I made an inquiry respecting him, I probably should be as well satisfied, as if I knew the clergyman himself: that he was a man of unexceptionable character, of good fortune, a rector of one of the city churches, and meant to volunteer the service; desiring no other pay than his expences down and up. This made me still more unwilling to consent to his going, but it being Friday before Christmas, and only one day (Saturday) intervening, and of co...
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